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3TV News at 8

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formeraa

I figured this needed its own thread, since the other one is talking about the Cardinals/NASCAR airings last night. Thanks to landtuna for bringing this up!

3TV is adding a new newscast at 8pm starting on 9/11. It will be anchored by Heather Moore (adding an earlier hour to her anchoring at 9/10) and Jared Dillingham (who is moving from weekends to weekdays). With the demise of the Arizona News Channel, I think this is a good addition to the lineup for those like myself who get home a bit later from work. According to Jared's FB page, Brandon will continue to anchor at 5/6/9/10. It seems curious that Jared will only be used at 8pm (will he be used at 4pm with Nicole Crites?). Who will replace Jared on the weekends?
 
3TV already has two consecutive hours of news evenings from 9-11. Are they tacking on an additional hour or will they be replacing one of the existing hours?

As I opined in the earlier post, given the well discussed financial issues with ownership of KTVK/KPHO this seems like a cheap way to replace more expensive programming. Unless they plan on going deep on daily stories, which seems very unlikely, there won't be nearly enough news to keep them busy for three hours.

A late thought.....would you suppose 3TV will take over the evening non-network news programming and leave their partner KPHO with just the CBS network news?
 
landtuna said:
3TV already has two consecutive hours of news evenings from 9-11. Are they tacking on an additional hour or will they be replacing one of the existing hours?

As I opined in the earlier post, given the well discussed financial issues with ownership of KTVK/KPHO this seems like a cheap way to replace more expensive programming. Unless they plan on going deep on daily stories, which seems very unlikely, there won't be nearly enough news to keep them busy for three hours.

A late thought.....would you suppose 3TV will take over the evening non-network news programming and leave their partner KPHO with just the CBS network news?
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It looks like that from the earlier post, 3TV will be on from 8:00-10:35 p.m. weeknights.
 
landtuna said:
3TV already has two consecutive hours of news evenings from 9-11. Are they tacking on an additional hour or will they be replacing one of the existing hours?

As I opined in the earlier post, given the well discussed financial issues with ownership of KTVK/KPHO this seems like a cheap way to replace more expensive programming. Unless they plan on going deep on daily stories, which seems very unlikely, there won't be nearly enough news to keep them busy for three hours.

A late thought.....would you suppose 3TV will take over the evening non-network news programming and leave their partner KPHO with just the CBS network news?
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"Hot in Cleveland," IIRC, was a show sold on straight barter, so it cost them virtually nothing to run (except for eight minutes of their spot inventory per hour), so I don't think station finances are an issue. Just an open hour being freed up since a show is leaving syndication.
 
Channel 3 had an 8PM newscast a few years ago, it was cancelled because of poor ratings. I want to say around 2003-2004. Guess news is better than Hot in Cleveland reruns or Pawn Stars.
 
ElBurqueno said:
Channel 3 had an 8PM newscast a few years ago, it was cancelled because of poor ratings. I want to say around 2003-2004. Guess news is better than Hot in Cleveland reruns or Pawn Stars.
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Yes they did when I believe it was called The News Show. It's been a while.
 
landtuna said:
this seems like a cheap way to replace more expensive programming. Unless they plan on going deep on daily stories, which seems very unlikely, there won't be nearly enough news to keep them busy for three hours.
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I've seen this done by a few other indie stations without networks. What they end up doing is repeating segments from earlier in the same cast. So it won't be three hours of all first-run original news. Then again, it's rare that an entire evening show is all first run. They'll do a live top, and run a prerecorded piece that gets repeated several times.
 
3TV gets even more irrelevant.

I did notice today that promos for the new "news" show have it hosted by people other than those doing the later news hours.
 
landtuna said:
3TV gets even more irrelevant.
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Not if you have to be at work at 5-6 AM and go to bed early. Construction workers, hospital workers, & customer service or sales reps that handle the 3-hour-later east coast come to mind immediately. We have more of those folks than you realize.
 
landtuna said:
3TV gets even more irrelevant.

I did notice today that promos for the new "news" show have it hosted by people other than those doing the later news hours.
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Actually, only Jared Dillingham is new. Heather Moore is the 9/10 co-anchor and Royal Norman is the chief meteorologist on all the pm newscasts from 4-10pm.
 
Furthermore, the demise of the news on 3.2 had nothing to do with the additional hour of news on 3.1. 3.2 was a carbon copy of 3.1's news, with repeats in 3.1's non-news hours.
 
mike847 said:
Furthermore, the demise of the news on 3.2 had nothing to do with the additional hour of news on 3.1. 3.2 was a carbon copy of 3.1's news, with repeats in 3.1's non-news hours.
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Correct! But, with the demise of the Arizona News Channel, it is nice to have the extra hour of news in the early evening for those of us who gets home a bit later.

I watched the premier edition last night and it was basically very similar to 3 TV News at 9, which was fine with me. 8pm is a great time for me personally.
 
Unless there are bad storms heading in my direction I refuse to watch any news product. So, this new hour does not interest me at all. (I'm an old man. I've seen better and the new kids on the block doesn't measure up.)
 
mike847 said:
Unless there are bad storms heading in my direction I refuse to watch any news product. So, this new hour does not interest me at all. (I'm an old man. I've seen better and the new kids on the block doesn't measure up.)
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While I understand your sentiment and have similar feelings at times, I'm sure each generation has felt the same way. I believe that the issue is that we have a much greater quantity of "news" these days on a variety of platforms, but it is still nice to get it at a convenient time.
 
formeraa said:
While I understand your sentiment and have similar feelings at times, I'm sure each generation has felt the same way. I believe that the issue is that we have a much greater quantity of "news" these days on a variety of platforms, but it is still nice to get it at a convenient time.
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Indeed. While the platforms are going beyond set television start times, they still exist and are still important. There is something to be said for tuning in at a set time and know you are watching live programming, not always evident from other tech sources.

Phoenix is not alone here. Seattle also lost its cable news network, but offers live news from 4p through 11:30pm on various channels. (except 730-9).
 
seatownmedia said:
Indeed. While the platforms are going beyond set television start times, they still exist and are still important. There is something to be said for tuning in at a set time and know you are watching live programming, not always evident from other tech sources.

Phoenix is not alone here. Seattle also lost its cable news network, but offers live news from 4p through 11:30pm on various channels. (except 730-9).
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Look at L.A. too... They're on from 4am-2pm and then 3-11:35pm, across various channels.
 
formeraa said:
Wow, that's interesting! Phoenix still has some holes in coverage: 10am to 11am, 12:30pm to 4pm, and 7pm to 8pm.
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Actually, if you watch FOX 10 News NOW on KUTP Channel 45 from 10am-12pm, then the 10am hour is filled.
 
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